For the first time in over a decade, UCLA has seen a decrease in number of freshman applicants from 113k to 111k. Number of admits should decrease slightly compared to last year as yield rates have increased. The decrease is largely due to instate students. As UCLA has become more competitive many students not in the range most likely decided it wasn’t worth the $75.
Total overall freshman applicants to UC’s, including UCB, decreased too.
They still have tooo many kids applying for the spots they have available. Maybe there are less kids graduating this year than previous years, so applications are doing down.
I agree. The graduating class of 2019 appears to be lower than last year as well as the year after the 2019 class
Also, the fact that Ucla is in the heart of a large
city and population is high. It doesn’t seem as appealing
there’s already a separate thread on the why’s of the decrease for almost all the UCs. Main theory is the huge number of Golden Dragon kids who applied for 2018.
The 2019 class was still higher than the 2017 class, so over time, it will likely show that 2018 was an outlier and there’s still a general upward trend. I’m assuming that “Golden Dragon kids” were kids born in the year 2000?
For this year’s application pool, it’s 66% year of the snake, with only 33% year of the dragon (kids born in the winter 2000). This may have contributed to the decline somewhat.
(edited; you are all already discussing year of the dragon)